History of the United States - From the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896 - Vol. II

From the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896 traces how the United States, pulled apart by slavery, expansion, and sectional rivalry, repeatedly found temporary remedies that only postponed deeper conflict. Rhodes follows the long arc from the fragile balance of 1850 through the shocks of the Civil War, showing how emancipation and the destruction of the old political order forced Americans to redefine what the Union—and citizenship—would mean. He emphasizes the hard, contested struggle to rebuild the country afterward: Reconstruction's promises and failures, the fight over federal power, and the persistent resistance that kept racial and political justice from becoming real. History of the United States - From the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896 - Vol. II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892.